Pity the Samsung TV vendor at the Consumer Electronics Show. She’s sitting there all alone in front of her 72-inch OLED TV with home-network hub. Next to her, a riot is ensuing as media types jockey for a look at Samsung’s latest Note phablet. (I must force my fingers to type this Elmer Fuddism.)

Finally, we have a single machine that accomplishes nearly all of our electronic hand-holding with virtual swipes of the screen.

Instead of walking around feeling like a Best Buy store filled with separate devices for each function, all that is now in one box.

I immediately think, “battery chargers.”

My family has nine.

With a phablet, you need only one.

So you’re on the phone app with your mother-in-law. She wants a recipe you wrote in 1999. Call up Jim’s Recipe Cloud, search, press export to text message. I’m done.

The phablet is anti-button clicking. Type in a phone number. Raise phablet to your face. It senses you and dials.

That sound you hear is the last wheezes coming from your laptop PC. Everybody’s predicting phablets are the final blow. Pundits have suggested that before, but this time, dig a hole in the garden, your PC is dead meat.

The phab (it’s gotta morph to that) is a hybrid phone-PC. It shrinks the tablet and expands the smartphone.

It’s the Swiss Army knife of handheld gear. Samsung’s is 16 percent larger than its non-phone predecessor.

All this at a time when handhelds, via Apple, are getting smaller.

Think of all the ways you use your tablet-PC. Then add all the stuff on your smartphone. That’s the concept.

Has anyone noticed how cool South Korea suddenly has become. First the cars, then the LED TVs, then Psy and his horsey song (No. 1 on YouTube!) and now the phablet. Ten years ago, Samsung was known for refrigerators. Apple’s product-blocking lawsuits have awakened the sleeping dragon.

A lot of phone execs ridiculed the phablet. Doesn’t Apple, with its Mini, control the future? Consumers are heading in the opposite direction, grabbing 5 million phablets in the first three months of release, according to Samsung.

Meanwhile, Apple’s stock fell $300 in 10 days. Not phabulous.

Samsung’s line of phablet devices is sold by all four major wireless providers with varying contracts, and at electronics stores. The price may be shocking but remember, you’re getting a tablet and a phone in one box.